§ SIR W. EVANS-GORDON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)On behalf of my hon. friend the Member for the Hoxton division of Shoreditch, I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade why the last volume of the Report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic was in possession of the Press and published in various newspapers last week, and was not on Tuesday available for Members of this House.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI beg to Answer this Question on behalf of my right hon. friend. I understood that abstracts of this volume were sent to the Press on the strength of an assurance from the printers that it would be issued last Saturday. The printers unexpectedly failed to carry out this promise, and it was then too late to withdraw the abstracts. The volume consists of diagrams, statistics, and other appendices, and is of course on a different footing to the Report of the Commission. The incident seems to be of little importance.